The sound of the phone ringing on the deck next to my beer broke the spell the lake had slowly begun to cast on me, and I reached over to pick it up. “Yeah?”
“Dude, your phone manners would shock an ape.”
I couldn’t stop the smile that spread across my face at the sound of my best friend’s voice. “Ry, if an ape is calling me, he deserves my bad manners — I don’t recall giving my number to any apes.”
His loud, barking laugh sounded down the line. “I don’t know, Pres. Maybe you’ve got a new type.” The thing I loved about Ry was his ever-present optimism. He didn’t let anything in life get him down and, without fail, started every damn day with a smile. It was a trait I admired but had no real desire to emulate. “Drinks tonight at the Black Thumb?”
“Isn’t tonight Ladies Night?”
“Exactly. The ladies will show up for half-priced drinks and, by the time we get there, they’ll be tipsy enough to stop pretending to be good girls.”
I snorted. “We grew up with damn near every woman in town, Ry. Who do you have your eye on?”
“No one in particular.” The answer came too fast to be true, but I let it slide. “So, tonight? I have news you’ll want to hear.”
“I’m all ears now, Ry.”
“Fine, stay in the house until your cock shrivels up and dies from lack of use. See if I care.”
“My cock appreciates your concern, man.”
He snorted, and I could picture his smile — part annoyed and part amused. “Only because you’re my brother from another mother will I indulge in any sort of gossip with you.”
“Understood.”
“Word around town is that Sabrina Worthington is engaging in a bit of matchmaking, inviting nearly a dozen women to one of her infamous dinner parties. This Sunday.”
I groaned. My mother Sabrina only had two children with James Worthington, my dad: Grant who was dating one of the governor’s daughters, and me. Painfully, permanently single me. “That makes sense. Grant was waiting for me when I got off work, issuing an invite on Mom’s behalf. I wondered why.”
“Well, now we know. Preston will soon be off the market.” Ry’s voice boomed loudly, a sure sign that he was either alone or in the presence of one of his three sisters, who loved to pretend they had crushes on me.
“Seeing as she hasn’t apologized to me, I won’t be there on Sunday.” And, now that I knew what her motives were, I’d make sure to be busy. “Work.”
“I feel your pain, man, I really do. Even if you would be doing me a solid by going to this party and getting some numbers for me. These chicks are rich, right?”
I laughed. Ry talked a big game, but he was the proverbial nice guy. “You can go in my place, since Mom will definitely have a place setting for me.” So few people went against her wishes, she’d grown to expect that the whole world would bow down at her bidding.
“I’d rather have you do the heavy lifting.”
I wouldn’t be doing any lifting. I’d be at work on Sunday until late in the afternoon, and then I would sleep at least ten hours. And there would be no husband-hunters to be seen. “If you don’t show up in my place, you’ll have to make it happen with Lefty and Righty.”
Ry barked out a laugh that was way too loud and way too amused for my liking. “I always find a way. So, am I gonna see you at the Black Thumb tonight?”
I glanced down at the beer in my hand and at the other dripping condensation on the wooden slats next to me before I turned my gaze back to the lake, smiling. “Nah. I’m fine right where I am.”
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